Raising Rats, Mice, and African Soft Fur Rats...

[cchardwick]

Mice can be pretty useful to have around, despite their stench. My Super Pastel girl hasn't eaten in a month and a half - just picked up a mouse, since rats weren't tempting her, and it barely even made it into the tub before she had it. Small bite for her - she could probably eat three or four - but a small bite is better than none.

Today I opened up the mouse tanks and changed out the food. I was wearing one of these masks with the carbon filters, in fact I put my head in the tank and took a big whiff, no smell at all LOLOLOL. When I put all the tanks back together and took off the mask I only smelled the fresh food and pine, so no lingering smell. Not too bad, maybe I'll keep all three kinds of rodents for the time being. The mask plus the filter was less than $50. I do have some king snakes I'm going to try to breed, sounds like I may need a few mice. I also have some very young king snakes that take extra small pinkys, they won't seem to eat anything with hair on them, at least for frozen thawed. Hoping I can get them onto something bigger when I have some live available.